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1 /*
2 * kref.c - library routines for handling generic reference counted objects
4 * Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
5 * Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corp.
7 * based on kobject.h which was:
8 * Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
9 * Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Open Source Development Labs
11 * This file is released under the GPLv2.
15 #ifndef _KREF_H_
16 #define _KREF_H_
18 #include <linux/types.h>
20 struct kref {
21 atomic_t refcount;
24 void kref_set(struct kref *kref, int num);
25 void kref_init(struct kref *kref);
26 void kref_get(struct kref *kref);
27 int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release) (struct kref *kref));
29 #endif /* _KREF_H_ */